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'To my surprise, I find I have been on the Committee for the Patrick White Award for twenty-five years, so this gives me a good opportunity to share with others for the first time what the experience has been like. It was an even greater surprise to get a phone call from Patrick White in about September 1982. In his reedy voice and best imperious manner he asked me to join the Committee, on a probationary basis. He had decided to step down, wanting to make sure all was in order in case he should suddenly depart this life. If at the first meeting he thought I shaped up all right, he would then go off the Committee him. self. I must have passed muster, since I'm still here, but Patrick emit( never bring himself to stay away from the meetings, and in fact controlled his own Award till the day he died.'

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    y separately published work icon Remembering Patrick White : Contemporary Critical Essays Elizabeth McMahon (editor), Brigitta Olubas (editor), Amsterdam New York (City) : Rodopi , 2010 Z1691441 2010 selected work criticism Remembering Patrick White presents the first major study of the full range of White’s work in over twenty-five years, and aims to bring this important author up to date for new generations of readers and scholars. Patrick White is a writer of moods and perspectives and the essays collected here range in their focus over his public presentations, his formal challenges, his spiritual leanings and dramatic gestures. They examine the breadth and significance of White’s intellectual contribution and consider the ongoing legacy of his thought and his art within national and international frames. As a collection, they focus our attention on what Patrick White means at the juncture of the present, reading his work through contemporary critical perspectives that further underscore the dynamism and substance of his writing. (Publisher's blurb) Amsterdam New York (City) : Rodopi , 2010 pg. 35-46
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